Head for golf clubs



` A. A. KHAEUTER.

HEAD FOR GOLF CLUBS. lAPPLICATION FILED' MAY 6,1920.

1,413,854.- Patented Apr. 25, 1922.

,To all whom. it may concer/n:

sey, have @,NSET-STTS PATE? @fif P.ARTHUR A. KRAEUTER, 4SOUTH ORANGE,NEW JERSEY. l

HEAD Foru GOLF CLUBS.

Be itkno'wn that I, ARTHUR A; KRAEUTER, a citizen ofthe United States,and resident of South Orange, Essex County, New Jerinvented certain newand useful Improvements in Heads for Golf Clubs, of which the followingis a specification.

.My'invention relates to heads for golf clubs, particularly to Woodenheads which are provided With a reinforcing metal face plate; and myimprovements are directed to means for increasing the strength and.durability of the reinforced head, and to so forming and securing thereinforcing plate as toavoid-danger of its breaking away or beingseparated from the head.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is aA side view of. my improved golf club head;Fig. 2 -is a plan v ieW, partly/in section, of the same Fig. 3 is across sectional View on the line" 3 3 of Fig. 2, looking up; and Fig. 4lisa side view of the securing nut. j

Similar letters of reference, designate similar parts in all the'gures.'

" The head l is provided Witha shank 2 into which thefhandle of the clubmay be inserted in the usual manner; and the head is also recessed onits' striking face, as atl 3, to accommodate a Areinforcing plate 4which is adapted to fill the recess and to be flush With the strikingface o f the club.

lThe plategtv is provided With a shank 5, Which is mushroomed out orexpanded at 6, Where it merges-With the face plate so as to brace andsupporty the plate against lateral distortion 4in its relation to theshank, and I to prevent its being cracked or broken away.

fromthe shank by the force of thebloivs o f the club against the ballwhen in play. v

The recess 3 is formed to accommodate this mushroomed or enlarged end ofthe shank snugly andl evenly.

The shank passes through the head, and is secured at the opposite' sideby a retaining nut 6 -fitting in a socket 7 in the head of the club,and, preferably, held against rotation Specification of Letters Patent.lPatented Api*- 25, 1922- Anpplicatn led May 6, 1920. Serial No. $79,223.I

by'suitable means. as lock Washers 8, 8, the

size and Weight of the nut 6, Washers and Weight it down unduly atyeither the front orI back.

rlhe elasticity of the lock Washers 8, 8,

compensates for any expansion or shrinkage of the Wood of the head whenit becomes Wet or dries out, thus keeping the metal .ele-

ments -:'alvvays tight and snug. While the nut 6 can be set up,lwhenvandif desired, to

adjust the fittings to* any permanent shrink- I age of the Wood. 1

When the parts are so vformed `and assembled, the reinforced head actsas a unit, the Wood evenly and -firmly supporting the -face plate Withthe mushroomed end of the shank, While the securing nut holds thefromthe scope of my invention as claimed.

vshank firmly and so as to permit of being tightened up in case anylooseness of the 'Havihg thus described my invention What I claim anddesire to securey by Letters Patent o'f the United States, is y i Thecombination, With aWooden golf club head, provided with a'recess in itsstriking face having a flattened bottom merging into a 'funnel-shapedchamber extending from said recess to a transverse shank channeldisleading to an enlarged nut socket in the back of the head, of ametallic, face plate providedwith an integral conical extension taperingto a shank disposed below the central horizontal plane of the face plateand liav-' posed belowl the medial -line of the head and'-

